STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL: WESTERN ELECTRIC RULES The DMAIC Methodology in Quality Management, consists of five main steps that organizations utilize in order to satisfy customer requirements. In sequential order, these steps are: Define Measure Analyze Improve Control The control phase of the process, is the final sustaining phase of this continuous improvement cycle. Every time […]
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Thoughts on preparing for the turbulence that comes with business. Any business making legitimate strides toward a positive goal is moving in some direction, and any business that is moving is naturally going to face obstacles and bumps in the road. These bumps in the road range from day-to-day variances to unique, major variances that […]
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A Six Sigma method of identifying and addressing process lag. If they are wise, every organization goes through rigorous testing steps to smooth out kinks in the production process. Disruptions in and hindrances to ideal production levels exist in the form of delays, human errors, machine errors, defects, and more. It is wise to have […]
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Comparing data samples and variances. Smart business involves a continued effort to gather and analyze data across a number of areas. One of those key areas is how certain events affect business staff, production, public opinion, customer satisfaction, and much more. The Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) method assists in analyzing how events affect business or […]
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Product development inspired by customer desires. House of Quality refers to a well-known process for product development that is inspired by customer desires for product or process development and anchored by the capabilities and resources of the organization seeking to meet those desires. It is a process of listening to customers, translating their desires into […]
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A Six Sigma method of eliminating production success reporting bias. Often, management and financial reporting can contain bias. When a sample of business processes is taken to determine production success, the most-successful part of a sample might be reported to the public and shareholders to paint a picture of success that is greater than reality. […]
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Work sampling involves instantaneous observation of a worker at random intervals for a sufficient number of times for a period of time. At every observation, a note has to be made as to whether he is working or not working. From this information; an interval estimate for a given confidence level, has to be made […]
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Centering your ideas around specific, measurable milestones. In today’s society, individuals hear an awful lot about “following their dreams” and are encouraged to “keep dreaming.” All the same, businesses constantly preach at their staff to “get motivated” and “strive to be the best” and to “hit those marks.” While this type of advice might sound […]
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Job Design The organization of Job, the Job situation and the Job circumstances are structured in such a way that while maintaining or improving efficiency the job content accords as closely as possible with the capabilities and ambitions of the individual employee ensuring total integration of technical, economic and social aims. Job design aims at […]
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Introduction Economic order quantity (EOQ) also known as Wilson Formula founded by Ford W. Harris in the year 1913 helps in determining the optimum level of inventory that needs to be ordered so that the total inventory cost is reduced. In any inventory model, whether continuous or fixed order quantity, whenever the inventory level reaches […]
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Introduction to Outliers Outlier is a value that lies in a data series on its extremes, which is either very small or large and thus can affect the overall observation made from the data series. Outliers are also termed as extremes because they lie on the either end of a data series. Outliers are usually […]
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1. INTRODUCTION Job shop scheduling is basically an optimization process in which ideal jobs are assigned to resources at particular times. Let there be ‘n’ jobs J1, J2, J3…..Jn. Let there be ‘m’ machines M1, M2, M3…..Mn… If below conditions are met, then it is said to be a flow shop sequencing problem. The order […]
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